In recent years much health research across the social sciences and humanities has
undergone a noticeable, albeit by no means cohesive or comprehensive,'turn'towards a …

This paper (re) considers the role of medical technology at three interrelated levels: first, the
extent to which medical technology renders our bodies increasingly “uncertain” at the turn of …

The medical humanities are at a critical juncture. On the one hand, practitioners of this field
can bask in their recent successes: in the UK, at least, what was once a loose set of …

Social scientists of medicine have largely, although by no means exclusively, focused their
research on illness and sickness thus obscuring social scientific investigations of positive …

Beyond Health applies post-structuralist and postmodern ideas to issues of health and
health care to provide a radical re-think of how health is to be understood. It offers a …

Discourse relating to the dual processes of medicalisation and demedicalisation has
become deeply embedded in the sociological literature and increasingly in the cultural fabric …

Taking as its point of departure the problematic distinction between illness as 'deviance'and
health as 'conformity', this article ventures an alternative notion of health which oscillates …

While health and suffering are intrinsic to living bodies, the relevant causes are not always
based on the function and dysfunction of living tissue. In human beings, tissue connects …

There is a growing need for a new kind of debate at the intersection of the humanities and
healthcare, health and well-being. In the recent past the field of medical humanities has …

We propose that women's health—both theory and practice—is a powerful arena in which to
re-align and change the modernist theoretical underpinnings of current biomedical …